Celebrations in Venice
We are off to Venice this week (sadly without Caroline this time) for a three day conference organised by Università Ca’ Foscari and Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana – Aldus Manutius and […]
Merchants of Print: Curator tour Thursday 19th February
Join the curators to discover more about Aldus Manutius, the journeys his books have taken over 500 years and how the books found their final home at The John Rylands […]
Merchants of Print: Manutius is in the house
Tuesday night was the official celebration of the start of the Merchants of Print exhibition held at the galleries of the John Rylands Library on Deansgate. We were delighted to […]
Make a copy of a Fountainebleau Aldine in Italy Summer 2015
Julianne, Caroline and Stefania Signorello, Wellcome Library, will be leading a workshop to make a copy of this binding in Montefiascone, Italy, in August. Details of the course and how […]
Ta dah!-We are open
Today following a lot of buffing and polishing, moving left and then right and light meter readings we are delighted to say that the exhibition opened (soft launch today) It […]
INCUNA NUOVA: NEW INNOVATIVE CRADLES FOR MERCHANTS OF PRINT EXHIBITION
We have been working hard for the last week, installing the exhibition – Merchants of Print: From Venice to Manchester, which will run from 29th January to 21st June to […]
1515: Divina Commedia Dante Alighieri, R213743
We want to start the New Year by talking about one of the pioneers of Italian Studies in Manchester. In the first half of the twentieth century, Professor Walter L. […]
